U.S. Senate inspires much-needed confidence, with RFK, Jr.

But he did not take notes or make them coffee

Sep 22, 2025

It’s about time we had some good news, so I tuned in to a good old-fashioned Senate hearing, and I’m here to tell you: RELAX, the system is working.

These senators sat patiently for three hours, just to take turns interviewing a secretary. I don’t think I could fill a room with people I know who are that serious and disciplined and would not giggle even once. Their questions were detailed and well-rehearsed. We are in good hands!

The secretary answering their questions was Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., of U.S. Health and Human Services. He did a decent job and knew a lot of answers, even though he did not have a script.

Sometimes he got a little rude. Early on, he said some mean things about America’s youth and complained about high rates of disease. Then he turned right around and threatened to fire the very people in charge of Controlling the Diseases, and then he bragged about an uncle who had spent “ZERO on chronic disease.” I’m no doctor, but I’ve been saving up so I can spend more than that.

You can watch Kennedy say these things on video at a link near the end of this article.

Later on, a senator who was being pretty nice—despite bragging about having delivered five thousand babies—mentioned that two things can be true at the same time. I thought it was a good point, and Kennedy seemed to agree, and soon the senator, named Marshall, was encouraging Kennedy to say this:

[at 2:28:12]
If you just want to turn everything into a sound bite, it makes it—you know, you can’t have a grownup conversation.
…
[at 2:28:48]
They think I’m being evasive, because I won’t make a kind of a statement that’s almost religious in nature. Did it [the COVID vaccine] save a million lives? Well there’s no data to support that, there may be data, you know, there’s no study that—there’s modeling studies, there’s faulty data, I’m not gonna sign onto something if I can’t make it to a scientific certainty. It doesn’t mean that I’m, you know, anti-vax, it just means I’m pro-science.

You can watch Senator Marshall’s performance at a link near the end of this article.

Overall, Senator Marshall’s performance was actually the most boring, even if he has delivered five thousand babies, and it made me wonder why they filmed three hours of this stuff, which no one has time to watch. They should have focused on the more entertaining performances, like the one by Senator Luján of New Mexico.

Luján almost stumped Kennedy with a very tricky question about whether a specific employee was listed properly on the HHS web site. Kennedy immediately knew that employee by name but pointed out that he was really just a contractor, and other technicalities. Luján’s offer to pull up the web site right then and there did not end up being necessary, and just as the web site issue was fizzling out, Luján revealed that the contractor was not a doctor and had not even gone to medical school.

This flustered Kennedy, who could only agree with both points (another pair of things that could both be true), so Luján brandished a document accusing Kennedy’s contractor of practicing medicine in Maryland without a license, to which Kennedy replied that the contractor is a data analyst, not a doctor, and that the Maryland medical board had been forced to pay $2.6 million for making such a false accusation with “actual malice.”

I would have been embarrassed, but Luján did not miss a beat. He complimented Kennedy’s ability to “know a lot when you want to know a lot,” for which Kennedy called the senator “ridiculous,” forming another pair of things that could both be true.

Luján then offered to speak slowly and clearly so Kennedy could understand his New Mexico accent, demanded the release of an already-public study, and with the poise of a toxic girlfriend at 3:00 am, announced that Kennedy had almost earned a starfish pin but not quite, which I’ll bet is the only time that has ever happened.

Luján’s video segment is even better than the highlights I have written about here, and it is only seven minutes long. You should watch it.

📼 Watch Senator Luján bring his “A” game, at 2:29:20 to 2:36:18.